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# Senior Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Drive
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £69,607
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Databases, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Django Web Framework, Elasticsearch, Github, High-Level Architecture, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, Pair Programming, Software Technical Review, Data Processing, Backend, Fastapi, Build Management, Solid Principles, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Microservices
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5962866199

## About the Role

* Strong technical skills to design and build scalable backend services, primarily in Python (in any framework)
 * Analytical skills: a love for problem solving, and improving our working processes. We are always learning
 * A good understanding of databases, OO design, data structures, distributed systems and SOLID principles
 * Strong desire to work collaboratively with both your peers and business teams
 * The ability to communicate technical concepts to other members of the team.

## Description

Join the team and play a pivotal role in designing and building highly scalable and maintainable backend services. You'll have the opportunity to leverage and suggest the latest tools and techniques, collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Sales teams. We encourage sharing technical solutions and product ideas through code and design reviews, pair programming, and presentations, all while continuously improving our Agile processes.

What you'll do:

Our culture empowers our talented developers to develop using whichever tools we need to get the job done. To face the many challenges, including brilliant customer experience, data processing, microservice architecture and more.

 * Hands on building highly scalable and maintainable backend services
 * Turn intricate business needs into robust technical designs and high-level architecture
 * Use appropriate tools for development and being proactive in suggesting new tools, frameworks or techniques
 * Collaborate across functional teams including Product, Design and Sales
 * Share technical solutions and product ideas through code and design reviews, pair programming, and presentations
 * Highlight areas we can improve on as a team practising Agile processes
 * Offer expert technical leadership and support while mentoring our developing engineering talent

Our Tech Stack:

We use the tools we need to get the job done. We primarily use the following tools and frameworks (some have been added in the past year, and more are planned):

Python

Django

FastAPI

AWS

ElasticSearch

Postgresql

Kafka

Github

Kubernetes